American Redmond Gerard claimed the United States' first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Sunday with his victory in the snowboarding slopestyle competition. Gerard scored a run of 87.16 to hold off Canadians Max Parrot and Mark McMorris, who finished second and third respectively. Gerard believes taking a risk in the final run was the difference between himself and Parrot. Gerard raised the bar with his backside triple cork 1440 during his final run to take the lead off McMorris and the Canadian couldn't respond, falling on the final kicker. Afterwards, Parrot admitted to feeling the pressure going into the final run of the morning.

Source: dna February 11, 2018 05:48 UTC